He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
WALTER SCOTTMany of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
More Walter Scott Quotes
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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